On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:36:16 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, again, Nancy and TIPSters:
>Need some information concerning the following:
>
>1) Recent studies comparing psychotherapy with medication as treatment for
>depression. I was under the impression that psychotherapy is not really an
>effective treatment for moderate to severe treatment - at least not by
>itself. Someone claimed otherwise to me - that psychotherapy is as good if
>not better than medication. Can anyone support this for me, or enlighten me
>if I am wrong?
Here's another item bearing on the efficacy of psychotherapy compared
with medication. It isn't about severe depression, but rather, a more
severe form of disorder, medication resistant schizophrenia:
Psychological interventions were effective and members of the cognitive
behavioral therapy group maintained their gains through a 9 month
followup period.
Sensky, T., Turkington, D., Kingdon, D., Scott, J. L., Scott, J.,
Siddle, R., O'Carroll, M., & Barnes, T. R. R. (2000). A randomized
controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy for persistent
symptoms in schizophrenia resistant to medications. Archives of General
Psychiatry, 57, 165-172.
Bruce L. Bachelder, PhD
Psychologist in Independent Practice
Morganton, NC
